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Environmental and Social Report 2007
The Kameyama Plant Environmentally Conscious

In evaluating parts and materials suppliers, Sharp uses two assessment guidelines: the Assessment of Environmental Management to evaluate management's approach and awareness of the environment, and the Assessment of Delivered Goods to check and evaluate the environmental friendliness of incoming components and materials.

The Assessment of Environmental Management is based on the Green Procurement Guidelines, and it evaluates the environmental management practices, as well as the implementation of green procurement by the suppliers with whom Sharp does business. The Assessment of Delivered Goods is based on the Survey Manual for Chemical Substances in Parts and Materials and checks whether products contain specific chemical substances targeted for attention by the Japan Green Procurement Survey Standardization Initiative* (JGPSSI), evaluating component parts point by point for the presence of banned substances.

* The Japan Green Procurement Survey Standardization Initiative (JGPSSI) is a voluntary organization comprising 86 companies and 5 associations (mainly electronics manufacturers, including Sharp Corporation) which works to standardize research on chemical substances in components and materials of electrical equipment and electronic products.


Green Procurement Assessment Flow



Key Environmental Management Assessment Criteria

  1. Acquire third-party certification for environmental systems (ISO 14001, EMAS, KES, EA21 or Ecostage 21).
  2. Establish an environmentally conscious corporate creed, as well as policies, goals and objectives, and plans.
  3. Set a goal to reduce the amount of energy and water used.
  4. Organize a system for green procurement.
  5. Manage processes to prevent intermixing and contamination by banned chemical substances in the company's processes.
  6. Publicly disclose the details and results of activities designed to protect the environment.

Incoming Goods Assessment Criteria

  1. Products and materials must not contain any completely banned substances (group of nine substances, including hexavalent chromium, and the like).
  2. With the exception of exempted applications, products and materials must not contain any conditional-use banned substances (a group of eleven substances, including cadmium, lead, and the like).
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